Rembrandt’s Africans

Authors
Publication date 2010
Host editors
  • D. Bindman
  • H.L. Gates
  • K.C.C. Dalton
Book title The image of the Black in western art. - New ed. - Vol. 3, pt. 1: From the 'age of discovery' to the age of abolition: artists of the Renaissance and Baroque
ISBN
  • 9780674052611
Pages (from-to) 271-306, 376-385
Number of pages 46
Publisher Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR)
Abstract This article draws attention to the fact that Rembrandt throughout his career surprisingly often included Africans in his drawings, etchings and paintings. It investigates in what context Rembrandt employed this motif, what the iconographic and artistic significance was, what his sources were and how the motif was perceived by Rembrandts contemporaries.
Document type Chapter
Language English
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